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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Fuzz,
This might help you to understand how the carbon tax is affecting food prices.
https://retail-insider.com/retail-in...-canada-op-ed/
Like I said earlier, the carbon tax cost on a $2 apple isn’t just the cost of one semi to transport it. The cost to the food industry from the carbon tax is compounded by every company they works or deals with any other company related to food production, transportation, packaging, etc. |
Yes, I understand how that works. Added costs should motivate businesses to invest in less carbon intense sources. But really, this is a bit of government failure. Particularly provincial. Alberta can design whatever carbon regime it wants, but it chose to take the federal one. We could have carbon taxes collected an distributed in ways that wouldn't have as much of a financial impact. But we vacated that space to the feds and are premier whines like a toddler, ignoring the fact that we could control our own green destiny. This is what doing nothing looks like.